Owner's Manual

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not indicate a problem with the hardware. Check the option value
and try again.
* On PowerEdge 700 systems, the console redirection option in the
BIOS has the arguments" off," "serial port 1," and "RAC;"
the equivalent arguments in DTK are "off," "serial port 1,"
and "serial port 2."
When the argument is set to "serial port 2" in DTK, the option
corresponds to "RAC" in the BIOS setup.
* The "--solbitrate" option in "solcfgparams" and the
"--msgcommbitrate" option in "serialcfgparams" accept a baud
rate of 57600, but tools such as "ipmish" and "solproxy" do not
function at this baudrate for PowerEdge x8xx systems.
RACADM Issues:
* The "racadm gettracelog" option may cause the system to hang. You
may need to restart the system.
Operating system installation issues:
* Installation of legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems
may fail due to lack of support for new hardware. You should
modify the '%post' section of "ks.cfg" to update to a newer
version of the kernel or install the drivers from this section.
* The default root password for Linux installation is "root123."
This could be changed to be encrypted in the template "ks.cfg"
provided.
* The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system installation may
fail on systems equipped with multiple RAID and/or SCSI
controllers, whether installed on the system board or in PCI
slots. This failure may occur when using Server Setup or
performing a manual installation. When two or more RAID or
SCSI controllers are present, install Red Hat Enterprise
Linux with only one configured RAID or SCSI controller.
Configure the other controllers after you install the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
Instrumentation issues:
* The "/opt/dell/srvadmin" directory in the DTK ISO image should be
writable. This enables the instrumentation services to
work properly.
* The file "omreg.cfg" should be present in the "/etc/" directory
for the tools to function properly. This is applicable if DTK
is being customized to fit in an embedded Linux environment
other than the Dell-provided embedded Linux.